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A9 has just launched Company > Yellow Pages on A9.com” xhref=”http://a9.com/-/company/YellowPages.jsp” mce_href=”http://a9.com/-/company/YellowPages.jsp”>yellow pages with a “block view”. You can actually see the shop you’re searching for in the online yellow pages, and then virtually walk up and down the block. It’s utterly cool.
Let’s see… this is what Kabab House and Madame K’s look like [...]
I’m attending the Amazon web developer conference as I’m writing this. Long list of speakers for today, including Joel Spolsky and James Gosling.
See the details at the Amazon Web Services blog.
Werner Vogels is our new CTO. He even has a cool blog. I hope he keeps up with it
I’ve never lived in a place where it actually snowed before. Visited yes. Lived, no. So excuse me while I go gawk a little.
Good thing it melted away quickly. Not that I have to shovel driveways or anything, but I still don’t wanna be driving around in that stuff. At least not until I get [...]
Continuing my quest to find the perfect pizza, I ran across a delightful little place just minutes from home.
Madam K’s Pizza in Ballard - “Every town has its celebrated Madam, eternal women to be sentimentalized down the years. There is something attractive to man about a Madam. She combines the brains of a businessman, the [...]
I want Amazon to offer RSS full text feeds for everything imaginable. There should be an RSS feed for each product detail page in multiple flavors so that you can subscribe to price changes, new reviews, availability, used prices etc. There should be an RSS feed for product categories and subcategories with filters supported so [...]
So I ran across musicplasma. It shows relationships between artists based on influences and genres by drawing a visual map given an artist name. It looks very impressive and the graph is interactive, letting you discover new artists.
I do wonder how it accomplishes this. It seems that the the artist discography and album images are [...]
Site comments have been enabled for a while now, and so far life is good. Had some spam attempts but MT Blacklist did its job.
Now waiting for the trackback spam to hit.
Saw this over at McGee’s blog today. This piece of art by Alexis Rockman makes me want to visit the Brooklyn Museum next time I’m in NY.
Some more artwork here.
The site design may not be the most polished I’ve seen, but content is king in this case. MyBus.org has real-time metro transit updates for buses in the Seattle / King County region.
There are even interfaces for WAP and SMS. Here’s an example for the 545 Express that runs between Redmond and Seattle.
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